Caroline Blakiston
Acting • Born 1933-02-13
Biography
Caroline Blakiston (born 13 February 1933) is an English actress. Best known for her role in the television comedy series Brass, she has also appeared as Mon Mothma in the science-fiction film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. In the 1960s she appeared in three episodes of The Avengers as well a number of ITC productions such as The Saint and the 1969 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "Never Trust a Ghost". She appeared to great acclaim as Marjorie Ferrar in the BBC Television adaptation of Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga in 1967. In 1977 she appeared in Raffles as Lady Paulton, and also in Murder Most English as Helen Carobleat. In 1986 Blakiston played the villain Bess Sedgwick, opposite Joan Hickson's Miss Marple, in "At Bertram's Hotel", made by the BBC and shown on the PBS series Mystery in the U.S. She also appeared as Lionel Hardcastle's ex-wife in an episode of As Time Goes By. She and Geoffrey Palmer (Lionel) had previously played estranged spouses a decade earlier in Carla Lane's series The Last Song.
Filmography
72 credits
Return of the Jedi
Movie • 1983
Mon Mothma
Les Misérables
Movie • 1978
Mme Thénardier
The Fourth Protocol
Movie • 1987
Angela Berenson
The Magic Christian
Movie • 1969
Hon. Esther Grand
Miss A and Miss M
Movie • 1983
Adult Lizzie (Narration)
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Movie • 1971
Rowing Wife
The Trygon Factor
Movie • 1966
Nun
Coup!
Movie • 2006
Margaret Thatcher
Mary Anning
Movie • 2018
Molly Anning
Scoop
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Quincy
Yanks
Movie • 1979
Golfing friend
The Mallen Secret
Movie • 2008
Anna Bridgmore
The Idol
Movie • 1966
2nd Woman at Party
The Mallen Curse
Movie • 1980
Anna Brigmore
Knots
Movie • 1975
The pianist
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Movie • 1978
Elena
The Mallen Streak
Movie • 2003
For Elsie
Movie • 2012
Mama Kilov
Life After Death
Movie • 1982
Josie
The Lie
Movie • 1970
Esther
The Mallens
Movie • 1979
Anna Brigmore
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Movie • 1978
Narrator
The Last Romantic
Movie • 1978
Emily
For King and Country: Out There
Movie • 1963
Nurse
Second Childhood
Movie • 1966
Dr. Odile Keppler
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Angela Hartley
Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Dr. Rachel Vine
Department S
TV • 1969
Kate Mortimer
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Cynthia Wentworth-Howe
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
Hildy Dressler
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Dowager Duchess
The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Hildegarde
The Saint
TV • 1962
Eleanor Bastion
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Miss Hemmingway
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again
TV • 1989
Shadows of Fear
TV • 1970
Maureen
The Champions
TV • 1968
Marion Grant
Rides
TV • 1992
Brass
TV • 1983
Lady Patience Hardacre
Emergency: Ward 10
TV • 1957
The Caesars
TV • 1968
Agrippina
The Last Song
TV • 1981
City Beneath the Sea
TV • 1962
Sunburn
TV • 1999
Mrs. Armitage
Father Brown
TV • 2013
Lady Lavinia Pryde
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV • 1976
Elena
The Line of Beauty
TV • 2006
Lady Partridge
Charters and Caldicott
TV • 1985
Margaret Mottram
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
TV • 1987
Bess Sedgwick
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Esther
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Josie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Julia Carstairs
Raffles
TV • 1977
Lady Paulton
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Matilda Boff
As Time Goes By
TV • 1992
Margaret
Mulberry
TV • 1992
Adele
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Hilary Compton
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Sylvia Lennard
Poldark
TV • 2015
Aunt Agatha
Strange Report
TV • 1969
Louise
Story Parade
TV • 1964
W.P.C. Anne Cunningham
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
TV • 1984
Co-Ordinator
Wilde Alliance
TV • 1978
Elena
Harry
TV • 1993
Natasha Lee
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1994
Dowager Duchess
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
TV • 1977
Mrs Helen Carobleat
The Mallens
TV • 1979
Anna Brigmore
Private Schulz
TV • 1981
Countess
Out of the Unknown
TV • 1965
Dr. Odile Keppler
Shoestring
TV • 1979
Monica
Children of the New Forest
TV • 1998
Aunt Judith
The Grand
TV • 1997
Isobel Crawford